Franz Joseph I of Austria famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.
I think violence can never be justified.
It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.
Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

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